This is where I must disagree...
Sep. 15th, 2010 11:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serendipity8791With my nutritionist, that is.
She is relatively anti-carbs, even the good kind. Like, any root vegetable, in her opinion, counts towards your meal-by-meal carbs quota. Same goes with peas (now, does she mean only sweet green peas or beans and legumes as well? because those are not only full of protein but also... fibre and complex carbs!).
And your carbs quota should be 25% of your plate, or just about. Most North Americans eat about one third to half their plate in refined carbs, nevermind complex... refined. As in white pasta, white rice, white bread, peeled potatoes.
She would rather I eat fats (the good kinds, like olive oil, flaxseed oil, and so on), than carbs. Huh?
What's a future vegetarian to do? (Aside from filling up half her plate with veggies, which, believe me, she isn't adverse to. As she loves vegetables! Mmmmh... kale... *Homer Simpson gurgle*)
First, I should probably lay off the soda. I drink too much of the stuff anyway. I should reserve it for the occasions where I eat greasy fast food fare. Which should be less often than I already do anyway.
The colder weather is starting slowly but surely. This is the time of year where I start craving things like soups, stews and other hearty, slow-cooked dishes. Loads of root vegetables come into my diet at this time of year. So do mushrooms. Things flavoured with onions and garlic. And apples, lots and lots of apples. Maybe I should go with that...
She is relatively anti-carbs, even the good kind. Like, any root vegetable, in her opinion, counts towards your meal-by-meal carbs quota. Same goes with peas (now, does she mean only sweet green peas or beans and legumes as well? because those are not only full of protein but also... fibre and complex carbs!).
And your carbs quota should be 25% of your plate, or just about. Most North Americans eat about one third to half their plate in refined carbs, nevermind complex... refined. As in white pasta, white rice, white bread, peeled potatoes.
She would rather I eat fats (the good kinds, like olive oil, flaxseed oil, and so on), than carbs. Huh?
What's a future vegetarian to do? (Aside from filling up half her plate with veggies, which, believe me, she isn't adverse to. As she loves vegetables! Mmmmh... kale... *Homer Simpson gurgle*)
First, I should probably lay off the soda. I drink too much of the stuff anyway. I should reserve it for the occasions where I eat greasy fast food fare. Which should be less often than I already do anyway.
The colder weather is starting slowly but surely. This is the time of year where I start craving things like soups, stews and other hearty, slow-cooked dishes. Loads of root vegetables come into my diet at this time of year. So do mushrooms. Things flavoured with onions and garlic. And apples, lots and lots of apples. Maybe I should go with that...
